Alan Bryman is Professor of Organizational and Social Research, School of Management, University of Leicester, UK.

David L. Collinson is Professor of Leadership & Organization at Lancaster University Management School.

Brad Jackson is the Head of School of Government and Professor of Public and Community Leadership at Victoria University of Wellington. Prior to this he was the Fletcher Building Education Trust Chair in Leadership and Co-Director of the New Zealand Leadership Institute at The University of Auckland Business School. Brad has authored five books including A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Leadership and co-edited the Sage Handbook of Leadership and Major Works in Leadership. Brad is the former Vice-Chair of the International Leadership Association, a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management and The Leadership Trust.

PART ONE: OVERVIEW PERSPECTIVES
A History of Leadership - Keith Grint
Research Methods in the Study of Leadership - Alan Bryman
The Enduring and Elusive Quest for a General Theory of Leadership: Initial Efforts and New Horizons - Georgia Sorenson, George Goethals and Paige Haber
Leadership Development - David V. Day
PART TWO: MACRO AND SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Leadership and Organization Theory - Ken W. Parry
Perspectives on Strategic Leadership - Jean-Louis Denis, Veronica Kisfalvi, Ann Langley and Linda Rouleau
Charismatic Leadership - Jay A. Conger
Gender and Leadership - Linda L. Carli and Alice H. Eagly
A Network Approach to Leader Cognition and Effectiveness - Martin Kilduff and Prasad Balkundi
Trust and Distrust in the Leadership Process: A Review and Assessment of Theory and Evidence - Roderick M. Kramer
Leadership and Organizational Culture - Mats Alvesson
Cross-Cultural Leadership Revisited - Eric Guthey and Brad Jackson
PART THREE: POLITICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
Critical Leadership Studies - David Collinson
Leadership and Power - Raymond Gordon
Political Leadership - Jean Hartley and John Benington
Leadership and Cults - Dennis Tourish
Leadership Ethics - Joanne B. Ciulla and Donelson R. Forsyth
Philosophy of Leadership - Peter Case, Robert French and Peter Simpson
Aesthetics and Leadership - Hans Hansen and Ralph Bathurst
PART FOUR: PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Predictors of Leadership: The Usual Suspects and the Suspect Traits - John Antonakis
Contingency Theories of Effective Leadership - Gary Yukl
Transformational Leadership - Héctor R. Diaz-Saenz
Leader-Member Exchange: Recent Findings and Prospects for the Future - Smriti Anand, Jia Hu, Robert C. Liden and Prajya R. Vidyarthi
Leadership and Attachment Theory: Understanding Interpersonal Dynamics in Leader-Follower Relations - Annilee M. Game
Team Leadership: A Review and Look ahead - Shawn Burke, Deborah DiazGranados and Eduardo Salas
Authentic Leadership - Arran Caza and Brad Jackson
A Multi-level View of Leadership and Emotions: Leading with Emotional Labour - Neal M. Ashkanasy and Ronald H. Humphrey
The Shadow Side of Leadership - Manfred Kets De Vries and Katharina Balazs
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Leadership - Yiannis Gabriel
Creativity, Innovation and Leadership: Models and Findings - Michael D. Mumford, Isaac C. Robledo and Kimberly S. Hester
PART FIVE: EMERGING PERSPECTIVES
Followership and Follower-Centred Approaches - Michelle C. Bligh
Hybrid Configurations of Leadership - Peter Gronn
Moving Relationality: Meditations on a Relational Approach to Leadership - Dian Marie Hosking
Complexity Leadership Theory - Mary Uhl-Bien and Russ Marion
Spirituality and Leadership - Mario Fernando
Discursive Approaches to Leadership - Gail T. Fairhurst
Being Leaders: Identities and Identity Work in Leadership - Amanda Sinclair
The Virtual Leader - David M. Boje, Alison Pullen, Carl Rhodes and Grace Ann Rosile